Budgeting / Pricing Flashcards

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Pricing: The Three Fundamental Drivers of Cost

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1: compute - hourly from launch to termination
2: Storage - the data you store in the cloud
3: outbound data transfer - data in flight moving between systems

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3 Free Offer Types

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1: 12 months free - free usage following your initial sign-up date to AWS
2: always free - offers do not expire & are available to all AWS customers
3: trials - short-term free trials starting from the date you activate a particular service

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EC2 Pricing (5 ways to pay for E2 Instances)

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1: on demand - you pay by the hour or second without pre-paying
2: savings plan - commit to compute usage measured per hour for 1 - 3 years
3: reserved instances - commit to use 1 or 3 years regardless of usage
4: spot instances - instances only launch if spare capacity is available
5: dedicated hosts - an entire physical server just for you

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Lambda Pricing

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1: number of requests
2: code execution - from execution start, in response to events, to stop
3: always free, 1 million requests per month

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S3 Pricing

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You pay for the storage you use

1: storage class - various storage classes
2: storage - # and size of objects
3: data transfer - data transferred out of an S3 region
4: request & date retrieval - requests made for data and # of requests

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RDS Prising

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1: running clock hours
2: type of db
3: storage
4: purchase type
5: db count
6: api requests
7: deployment type
8: data transfer

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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

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Understand that this is the entire cost direct and indirect of moving to & working with AWS

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Application Discovery Service

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Helps plan Migration projects to AWS

Plan migration projects

Used to estimate TCO

Works with other services to migrate servers

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How to Minimize TCO in AWS

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1: minimize capital expenditures
2: utilize reserved instances (helps lock in pricing)
3: right size your resources (helps match provisioning of resources to your usage needs to reduce TCO)

You can calculate TCO using the pricing calculator

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AWS Price List API

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Allows you to query the price of AWS resources

Query using JSON or HTML

Receive price alerts when prices change

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Budgets

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Allows you to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed your budgeted amount

Improve planning and cost control

Cost, usage, and reservation budgets

Budget alerts

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Budget Types

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Cost Budgets - plan how much you want to spend on a service

Usage Budgets - plan how much you want to use on one or more service

Reservation Budgets - set RIs or savings plans utilization or coverage targets

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Cost and Usage Reports

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Contains the most comprehensive set of cost & usage data

Aggregate usage data on a daily, hourly, or monthly level

Once set it can be downloaded from the S3 console

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Cost Explorer

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Allows you to visualize & forecast your costs and usage over time

Visualize costs over time

View past 12 months

Forecast for up to three months

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Cost Allocation Tags

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1: tags allow you to label resources using a key & value pair
2: tags allow you to track costs via cost allocation report

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Governance and Management Services

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Governance & management services help you maintain control over cost, compliance, & security across your AWS accounts

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Organizations

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Allows central management of multiple AWS accounts under one umbrella

Group multiple accounts

Single payment for all accounts

Automate account creation

Allocate resources and apply policies across accounts

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Benefits of Organizations

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1: consolidated billing you receive me bill for multiple accounts
2: cost savings you’ll receive volume discounts since usage is combined across accounts
3: account governance you have a quick and automated way to create accounts or invite existing accounts

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Control Tower

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Helps ensure your accounts conform to company wide policies

Helps set up new accounts using a multi-account strategy

Works directly with AWS Organizations

Enforces the best use of services across accounts

Provides a dashboard to manage accounts

Can help with things like disallowing public write to S3 buckets

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Systems Manager

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Gives visibility and control over your AWS resources

Automate operational tasks on your resources

Group resources and take action

Patch & run commands on multiple EC2 instances or manage RDS instances

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Trusted Advisor

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Provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices

Helps you understand best practices

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Trusted Advisor Recommendations

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Check for unrestricted access for specific ports on EC2 instances

Check S3 buckets permissions to determine if there’s public access

Check for MFA on root account

Check IAM password policy

Check RDS for public snapshots

Check for service usage greater than 80% over service limit

Check for exposed access keys

Checks for cloud front content delivery optimization

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License Manager

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Helps manage software licenses

Manage on-prem & AWS licenses

Track licenses for oracle, SAP, MS, & more

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Certificate Manager

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Helps you manage SSL & TLS certificates

Provides public and private certs for free

Integrates with elastic load balancing, API gateway, and more

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Managed Services

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Helps efficiently operate AWS infrastructure

Augments your internal staff

Provides ongoing management of your infrastructure

Reduces operational risks and overhead

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Professional Services

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Helps enterprise customers move to a cloud based operational model

Implements solutions

get help with evaluating an app for migrating to the cloud
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AWS Partner Network (APN)

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Global community of approved partners that offer software solutions and consulting services for AWS

Offers technology partners that provide software solutions

Provides consulting partners that offer professional services

Find approved vendors with deep AWS expertise

Can help with designing / building a new app in the real world

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Marketplace

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Is a digital catalog of prebuilt solutions you can purchase or license

You can also sell your own solutions to others via marketplace

Buy 3rd party software

Sell solutions to AWS customers

Search the catalog of software listings & install with the click of a button

Can try an app before making a long term commitment

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Personal Health Dashboard

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Alerts to events that might impact AWS environment

Provides troubleshooting guidance

Feedback tailored to your specific environment

30
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4 Types of Support Plans: Basic

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Basic: included for free for all AWS accounts

31
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4 Types of Support Plans: Developer

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Starts at $29 a month & is recommended for testing and development

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4 Types of Support Plans - Business

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Starts at $100 a month & is recommended for production workloads

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4 Types of Support Plans - Emterprise

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Starts at 15k per month recommended for business or mission critical production workloads

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3 Types of Support Cases: Accounts and Billing

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Account and billing related can be opened by all customers

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3 Types of Support Cases: Service Limit Increases

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Default service quota increases can be made by all customers

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3 Tyoes if Support Cases: Technical Support

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Can only be opened by customers on a paid plan

AWS does not allow cases for code development, debugging, custom software, or performing system administration tasks

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Basic Support Plan

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Included with all accounts

Account & billing

Service limit increases

24/7access to customer support via email

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Developer Support Plan

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Starts at $29 a month & recommended for testing and development

Account and billing

Service limit increase

Technical support

1 primary contact

Unlimited cases

Cloud support associate - business hours access via email with response times in less than 24 hours gen guidance less than 12 system impaired

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Business Support Plan

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Starts at $100 a month & is recommended for production workloads

Accounts and billing

Service limit increases

Technical support

Unlimited contacts

Unlimited cases

Full set of trusted advisor tasks

Support engineers - 24 / 7 access via email, phone, or chat

Response times - gem guidance less than 24 hours, system impaired, less than 12 hours, prod system impaired less than 4 hours, prod systems, down, less than 1 hour

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Enterprise Support Plan

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15 k per month starting, recommended for business / mission critical production workloads

Account and billing

Service limit increases

Technical support

Unlimited contacts

Unlimited cases

Technical Account Manager (TAM)

Concierge support team

Infrastructure event management

Full set of trusted advisor tasks

Cloud support engineers 24 / 7 access via phone, e,ail, or chat

Response times - gen guidance less than 24 hours, system impaired less than 12 hours, prod system impaired less than 4 hours, prod system down less than 1 hour business critical system down less than 15 min